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Though major U.S. cities are beginning to ease local COVID-19 restrictions, some business owners are choosing to keep theirs in place for visiting customers.
Updated on June 30, 2021 at 8:12 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Some D.C. restaurants aren't waiting to see if the minimum wage for tipped employees law changes. They are paying their waiters and bartenders what they call a living wage, and, in some cases, doing away with tips. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. For generations, bartenders and waiters have worked for tips, with their employers only paying about a third of the traditional minimum wage. In D.C. it is $5.05 an hour compared to the $15 an hour for non-tipped workers.
Victura Park reopens at the Kennedy Center. Photograph by Mykl Wu A number of bars and restaurants around DC decided to temporarily close their doors—or go into “hibernation”—during the pandemic. But now, with warm weather, vaccinations, and the loosening of Covid capacity restrictions and regulations, many are reopening (though some are still limiting seating and/or keeping mask policies). Here’s a running list of newly opened spots, including some restaurants that are offering dine-in for the first time in months. Know of a business that’s reopening? Email aspiegel@Washingtonia...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/dining/chef-cindy-wolf-charleston-restaurant-baltimore.html Cindy Wolf has stayed committed to cooking at her Baltimore restaurant Charleston for 24 years, even after she and her partner, Tony Foreman, opened others.Credit...Cheriss May for The New York Times She Built a Baltimore Restaurant Empire, but Still Works the Stove Cindy Wolf is a rarity — a seasoned chef focused on her flagship and a style of white-linen dining that’s been endangered by the pandemic. Cindy Wolf has stayed committed to cooking at her Baltimore restaurant Charleston for 24 years...
Share Many pandemic features are ongoing at restaurants, including streetery seating. Pictured: "chateaus" at Le Diplomate. Photograph by Jeff Elkins Restaurateurs are calling it a “grand reopening”—DC lifts capacity limits and the strictest Covid regulations on bars and restaurants today, May 21. Most notably, indoor dining rooms can be filled to capacity without social distancing, masks are no longer required for vaccinated individuals, bartenders can serve seated patrons at the bar, and a myriad of social activities—from billiards to live music and axe throwing—are now permitted...